Boy thrashed by tutor for bed-wetting

KANPUR: A lady tutor and her mother have been accused of beating up a nursery student and branding his private parts with hot tongs for bed-wetting here on Friday.

In his complaint registered with Nazirabad police station, Ashoknagar resident Kailash has alleged that his seven-year-old son Shiva's teacher Rita and the latter's mother Gita Mukherji, who live in the neighbourhood, tortured the boy. Shiva is undergoing treatment at a nearby Hospital.

The incident took place on Friday afternoon when the boy had gone to take tutions from his tutor Rita Mukherji. Kailash told TOI that Rita and her mother Gita Mukherji thrashed his son Shiva with a cane and burnt his private parts with hot tongs when he wet a bed in their house.

Shocked and frightened by the beating, the victim's health took a turn for worse when he returned home. On noticing his condition, family members questioned him, in reply to which he showed bruises and burn marks on his body. The boy's mother Mona said, "When my husband went to the teacher and asked her about the burn wounds, she and her mother refused to hear him out and instead misbehaved with him. "We admitted Shiva to a private hospital for treatment and headed straight to Nazirabad police station to lodge a complaint," she added.

Deputy superintendent of police Shambu Sharan Yadav said, "We have registered a complaint and arrested the lady tutor. Further investigations are on in the case."